A children's sandbox is the perfect place to build a sandcastle or other sandy creations, such as crabs, lobsters, shells and sea turtles.
A curious effect of parasitism, well illustrated in crabs, though not confined to them, has been expounded by Professor Giard, namely, that it tends to obliterate the secondary sexual characters.
After all, crabs have claws for a reason.
Afternoon tour to James Bay to see fur seals, land iguanas and sally lightfoot crabs.
Again there was plenty of life with spider crabs, rainbow wrasse and shoals of larger fish above.
Alcock "observed one of these crabs drinking from a runnel of rain-water, by dipping the fingers of one of its chelipeds into the water and then carrying the wet fingers to its mouth."
Among shell-fish, crabs and oysters are taken principally off the east coast; the oyster beds in the shallow water off the north Kent and Essex coasts, as at Whitstable and Colchester, being famous.
Among the Lithodinea, or stone crabs, besides important readjustments of classification (Bouvier, 1895, 1896), should be FIG.
Barrel and tube sponges, sea urchins, spiny lobsters, coral shrimp and crabs are also widely present.
Bouvier (1896) has shown that Palaeinachus longipes, Woodward, from the Forest Marble of Wiltshire, is in close relationship, not to the oxyrhynch Inachidae, but to the genera Homolodromia and Dicranodromia of the Homolodromiidae, and that the Jurassic crabs in general, of the family Prosoponidae (Meyer), are Dromiidea.
Brown or golden king crabs are the smallest in size of the three main species and are similar in taste to blue king crab.
Buffalo-fish, paddle-fish, cat-fish, drum, crappie, black bass, rock bass, German carp, sturgeon, pike, perch, eels, suckers and shrimp inhabit the waters of the Mississippi and its tributaries, and oysters, shrimp, trout, Spanish mackerel, channel bass, black bass, sheepshead, mullet, croakers, pompano, pin-fish, blue-fish, flounders, crabs and terrapin are obtained from the Mississippi Sound and the rivers flowing into it.
Catching hermit crabs, watching bright red sticky beadlet anemones catch a passing shrimp, watching the slippery butterfish vanish beneath a rock.
Children can have fun catching crabs on the bridge by the car park.
Children love to dabble or fish for shore crabs and may well end up wet and muddy.
Crab Lane The road from London Road to Sun Street, possibilities Shaped like a crabs claw, crab Lane The road from London Road to Sun Street, possibilities Shaped like a crabs claw, Crab Apple trees grew there.
Crabs are next in value and are caught chiefly along the East Shore and in Anne Arundel and Calvert counties on the West Shore.
Despite the strong currents, there is quite a collection of spiny spider crabs, pipefish, crabs and lobsters inside the caves.
Dogfish swim around lazily, while large spider crabs clamber up steep rocky walls, over soft layers of seaweed or along sandy gullies.
Fans of Belle and Sebastian, Isobell Campbell, Camera Obscura, and The Hermit Crabs will hear something they like here.
For example, in order to build the cancer constellation, you're required to construct a katamari made completely out of crabs.
For example, when studying sea creatures it will be more interesting to visit a marine museum and science center to play in a touch-tank than to see pictures of starfish, sea urchins and hermit crabs.
For wildlife aficionados, there are congers, cuckoo wrasse and dense shoals of bib as well as massive spider crabs and lobsters.
Freshwater crustaceans, including crayfish and some river prawns and river crabs, have local market value in many regions.
Frozen crabs and crab parts should be selected for color.
Hampton is an agricultural shipping point, ships fish, oysters and canned crabs, and manufactures fish oil and brick.
He has to be out there, caught in the seaweed at the bottom of Chesapeake Bay, with the fish and crabs having a party, getting as bloated as the fat Wassermann twin lying on the slab at the Norfolk morgue.
Hold a crab race with some inexpensive hermit crabs from the local pet shop.
However, crabs are very successful marine animals, so that unwieldy suit of armor, or exoskeleton, must have its advantages.
I am also looking for shrimp, hermit crabs and possibly turbo snails.
In consequence of the breaking away of the lower part of "Cleopatra's Needles" when removed to Alexandria and re-erected, the Roman engineers supported the angles on bronze crabs, one of which with three reproductions now supports the angles of the obelisk on the Thames Embankment.
In this version, Mr. Crabs wants to expand his restaurant empire, and hires SpongeBob to help achieve his goal.
Ken disappears into his chalet, and I sit and watch the seabirds - two huge black storks, and an ibis chasing crabs.
Lamarck at the same time founded the class Crustacea for the lobsters, crabs and water-fleas, also until then included in the order Aptera of Linnaeus.
Lobsters and crabs are caught in Cardigan Bay, and oysters are found at various points of the Pembrokeshire coast.
Lucy's pasta dish came without any pasta, but with rice, and my swamp crabs were positively anorexic.
M. baccata or Berry Apple (so called from its small round fruits) are known as Siberian Crabs.
More commonly, coconut crabs are harvested as well as coral and shells.
Naturally these migratory crabs are not limited to Japanese waters.
Nearby exhibits include sheep crabs and deep-reef predators.
Next in importance were the catches of menhaden, shad, clams, squeteague and alewives; while minor catches were made of crabs, croaker, bluefish, butterfish, catfish, perch and spotted and striped bass.
On the negative side, we found Chinese mitten crabs.
One section of the site is KidZone, an area aimed at activities for Kids who own land hermit crabs as pets.
Oysters, crabs, shrimp and terrapins are also abundant here, and in the inland streams are some pike, perch, trout and catfish.
Pubic lice have large front legs and look like tiny crabs.
Seagulls, sea turtles and crabs are just some of the other marine life you can find depicted on shower curtains.
Shrimps, crabs and lobsters form an important source of food supply.
Soft clams, lobsters, hard crabs and soft crabs are other shell-fish obtained in small quantities.
Some catfish, shad, smelt, halibut, herring, perch, sturgeon, flounders, oysters, clams, crabs and crawfish are also obtained from Oregon waters.
Sorting through the crabs is challenging and workers have to follow rules outlined by the Alaska Commercial Fisheries Entry Commission (CFEC).
Tasmanian savages were crafty warriors and kangaroo-hunters, and the women climbed the highest trees by notching, in quest of opossums. Shell-fish and crabs were taken, and seals knocked on the head with clubs, but neither fish-hook nor fishing-net was known, and indeed swimming fish were taboo as food.
The annual value of the shell-fish (lobsters, crabs, oysters, mussels, clams, periwinkles, cockles, shrimps) is about £73,000.
The brightly colored sally lightfoot crabs are in stark contrast against the black rock.
The celebrated Gascoigne's powder, which was sold as late as the middle of the 19th century in the form of balls like sal prunella, consisted of equal parts of crabs' eyes," the black tips of crabs' claws, Oriental pearls, Oriental bezoar and white coral, and was administered in jelly made of hart's horn, but was prescribed by physicians chiefly for wealthy people, as it cost about forty shillings per ounce.
The fishing vessels used to catch king crabs can be as small as 50 feet in length or as long as 300 feet in length.
The great catches are herring, cod and ling, but lobsters and crabs are also exported in large quantities.
The life wasn't limited to scallops with rays, sole, plaice and plenty of crabs being seen.
The metacestode-larva occurs free in the intestine of fish, Cephalopods and crabs, and is known as Scolex polymorphus.
The metal traps rest on the seafloor and collect king crabs as they enter to take the bait.
The restaurant offers a variety of steamed crab dishes, but their garlic crabs are untouchable.
The waters of the Chesapeake Bay are especially rich in oysters and crabs, and there, also, shad, alewives, " striped " (commonly called " rock ") bass, menhaden, white perch and weak-fish (" sea-trout ") occur in large numbers.
There are crabs that do not rely on a hard carapace to protect them.
There were also empty crab skins (called exoskeletons) that had been shed as the crabs grow.
There were lots of spider crabs waiting to be picked up.
These crabs are brown with deep blue highlights before cooked and after cooking are an orange-red so may often be served as red crab.
These shrimps as well as a large species of crabmokuzo-ganiserve the people as an article of food, but the small crabs which live in holes have no recognized raison d tre.
They agree with the true crabs in not having appendages (uropods) to the sixth segment of the pleon, the atrophy being complete in the Homolidae and Homolodromiidae, whereas in the Dromiidae and Dynomenidae a pair of small plates appear to be vestiges of these organs.
They burrow in the sands of every shore; they throng the weeds between tide-marks; they ascend all streams; they are found in deep wells, in caverns, in lakes; in Arctic waters they swarm in numbers beyond computation; they find lodgings on crabs, on turtles, on weed-grown buoys; they descend into depths of the ocean down to hundreds or thousands of fathoms; they are found in mountain streams as far above sea-level as some of their congeners live below it.
They do not feed on fish, like true otters, but on clams, mussels, sea-urchins and crabs; and the female brings forth but a single young one at a time, apparently at any season of the year.
They include a jelly-fish, molluscs, prawns, crabs, &c., and were at first considered to form an isolated group found in no other of the African lakes; but this supposition has been proved to be erroneous.
They include oysters, crabs of great size, and a small mussel, found in enormous numbers.
They still have small boats that catch shellfish like lobster and crabs.
This inviting restaurant is renowned for its ricotta cheesecake and soft shell crabs.
Those frequenting the coast feed on dead fish, crabs and an occasional stranded whale, though they are also a danger to the sheep and cattle kraal.
Thus, prepared oystershells, coral, pearls, crabs' " eyes " and burnt hart's horn were regarded as specifics in different complaints, in ignorance of the fact that they all contain, as the chief ingredients, calcium phosphate and carbonate.
Trilobites are an extinct group of arthropod - animals with jointed exoskeleton like crabs, shrimps and lobsters.
Velvet Crab Fishery The smaller inshore boats target velvet crabs.
We also saw nudibranches, arrow crabs, sea anemones, the rock formations - nothing big.
We did see starfish, crabs, lobster, dead man 's fingers, sponges and tube anemones and a few small fish.
We did see starfish, crabs, lobster, dead man's fingers, sponges and tube anemones and a few small fish.
When living near the coast foxes will, however, visit the shore at low water in search of crabs and whelks; and the old story of the fox and the grapes seems to be founded upon a partiality on the part of the creature for that fruit.
While the guys on Deadliest Catch are out catching crabs in deadly conditions, these folks pull in fish that can weigh up to a thousand pounds.
Whilst we were rock pooling by the beach my daughter found a small colony of what I assume were hermit crabs.
Wildlife is rich around the wreck, particularly crabs, lobsters and ballan wrasse.
Workers should be familiar with the gear used to catch the crabs, and crab pots are among the most important tools.
You can often find toy crabs at dollar or discount stores.
You may also come across conch chowder - a keys specialty, tiny blue crabs - a Florida delicacy and fresh scallops.